Has Russia Advanced? Ukrainians Use This Online Map to Check Every Morning.

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 22, 2025 | Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova, Photographs by Brendan Hoffman

[MinorityRepublican]

Earlier this month, rumors spread that Russian troops had pierced Ukrainian defensive lines along a critical section of the eastern front. Soldiers spoke of night infiltrations, gunfire rattling in the distance and skirmishes near villages once considered secure.

The rumors quickly reached Ruslan Mykula and Roman Pohorilyi, the Ukrainian co-founders of DeepState, the group behind what has become the definitive online map charting battlefield movements. After a day of digging, the two men confirmed that the breach was real, and worse than initially thought, with Russian troops pushing nearly 10 miles forward.

“There was a very big problem,” Mr. Pohorilyi said in an interview, adding that Ukraine’s defenses in the area had been at risk of crumbling.

The pair knew that updating the map with the Russian advance would be politically explosive. With peace talks heating up, publicizing the breach risked weakening Ukraine’s hand in the negotiations. At the same time, it could force Kyiv’s top military command, which had so far been muted about the advance and seemingly slow to grasp its severity, to respond decisively.

On the evening of Aug. 11, they updated the map and posted a long message on social media explaining the “quite chaotic” situation. Screenshots of the map showing two long Russian incursions that looked like rabbit ears spread like wildfire in Ukraine, and the military, after initially downplaying DeepState’s assessment, quickly deployed elite troops to contain the breach.

“It drew a lot of attention,” Mr. Pohorilyi, a bespectacled 26-year-old, said with a smile.

DeepState’s revelations about the Russian advance illustrate how central its map has become to Ukraine over three and a half years of war. The map receives some 900,000 views daily on average. Among its viewers are civilians living near the front, trying to gauge if Russian troops are closing in;

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TOPICS: Ukraine
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[PAR35]

This post would be more useful with a link to the map instead of just driving traffic to a paywalled site.

Perhaps this is what the left wing propaganda site is referring to:

https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4383200/32.0526800

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All you have to do to read the whole thing is click on in your browser's toolbar.

[delta7]

The question is not about “ advances”, the question is how many Ukies Vlad has eliminated….one Cauldron at a time…and the Ukies keep sending them into Vlad’s famous “ Boiling Cauldrons”.

Much written about this, but not on western MSM….Ukraine is being demilitarized, by their own hands.

[EnderWiggin1970]

NYT made a mistake linking to a mapping site. Any of the mapping sites, regardless whether they lean pro-NATO or Russia or whatever, is superior to media reporting as they all have to stay anchored to reality. If they diverge sooner or later they have to come back to reality or their audience will heckle and abandon them. That’s far different from random media articles that just spew propaganda and are forgotten and have no accountability.

[Alas Babylon!]

As a retired military person I’m very interested in the various tactics and technologies in use in this war.

I don’t take sides like so many who argue on and on... My intention is not to, just to note things I see.

But this recent video posted today tells me the cauldron isn’t man versus man, but drones versus man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrhJvSkIJU

This kind of warfare is a horror. I’m not sure either side can escape the cauldron. The problem for the aggressors is they have to expose themselves in order to attack. It looks like certain death.

[BrexitBen]

Where does the New York Times get their “ journalists “?

Every ridiculous article is written by someone whose name suggests that the NYT is hiring at the U.N.

[A strike]

damn straight !

and all the others too

[Mr Radical]

I’m with you.

I suspect it parallel’s the stalement of the 1914-18 trench warfare, though today the lines are probably held a lot thinner in terms of numbers - the empty battlefield. The FOOs and HMGs in concrete bunkers have been replaced with drones.

Initially, in this conflict, the drones were limited to aerial views and superior recon but they now deliver ordnance with a reach and accuracy not possible before. As soon as one side concentrates for attack, they just become a target.

At the moment, the Russians appear to have resorted to the ‘crumbling’ or ‘bite and hold’ tactics of late 1944-45, trying to put pressure on the Ukranians along the whole length of the front line.

I guess it won’t stop until one side runs out of manpower or resources, not unlike Germany in 1918.

[Mr Radical]

... or unless one side attains a major technical advantage, such as a capability to defeat the drones. (The array of different EW systems the Russians have employed is bewildering, some very long range perhaps even 1000kms+. I guess Ukraine is being supplied with similar).

But none have proved war-winners yet.
A bit like the Elefants and T34 tanks of WW2. Those secret ‘war-winners’ shocked the enemy when first encountered, but neither were actually war-winners in themselves.